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They put out this video in the early 90’s, and it was one of the stranger, unsettling things that I’d seen, but it included these live performances that was just the one guy on guitar and the girl singing with some backing tapes and I recall some of the music being strange, psychedelic, and exciting. Whatever they had out at the time I didn’t like as much, and they didn’t seem like a band that was going to have a long productive future, or even live to see the future. So I am kind of surprised that they actually put out a bunch of records and have led productive, interesting lives. I had no idea. A good band to rediscover. :)

So Miley Cyrus has a giant pile of money, has real talent, gets to make art and music with the Flaming Lips, gets to hit on Ariana Grande, and overall seems to be a wonderful person. LIFE IS SO UNFAIR! She should at least have the common decency to have some negative qualities.

I like most of this record. There’s a bit of cringe-inducing, “produced for the radio” type guitar sounds and melodies, but there is lots of good material on it. You can hear them pushing against commercial restraints. I wouldn’t mind having a remastered version.

I lost interest in Beck after “Sea Change”. I generally liked the album but I felt it lacked something vital and was kind of samey. Too many steps towards the middle of the road for my taste. I would rate Mutations/Midnite Vultures as peak Beck, but this article has convinced me to check out “Guero” at least. The one song I listened to off of “Morning Phase” sounded like straight up adult contemporary to me.

I have found that several Beck tracks from the Odelay-Mutations-Midnite Vultures combo stand up to repeated listens.

This is like some weird test of the level of Flaming Lips fandom. Telepathic Surgery, their worst record, at 4 is just weird, and “Priest” is a classic in Flaming Lips universe. “Hit” is my favorite, so I’m glad it got some love. Clouds Taste Metallic would be around 5 I’d say, behind all the other 90s ‘noise-rock’ records.

“Mystics” was the first disappointing Lips record since the early days and should be way lower.

“Zaireeka” I think is their finest achievement, but it has to be listened to properly, and maybe shouldn’t be included.

I’m still figuring out what to make of “Embryonic” which is a good thing. At this point I’d certainly put it ahead of their three early records and “Mystics”.

I agree with including Louder/Hatful as a single entity on this list, but, y’know, The Queen is Dead is fantastic, and a proper album. I suppose if it was in it’s rightful place there would be fewer comments. ;)

I thought Mutations was way better, he’s considerably less interesting when trying to be ‘serious’. I listened to this a lot though, at the time, wasn’t terrible. I had no idea so many people liked it so much.

Here’s all you have to do to understand some of the ridiculous things Prince does.

He decided to strip down to his underwear and put out an album of pornographic demos…and it worked. He decided to put out a double album and it worked. Then, he decided he was going to make and star in a semi-autobiographical movie and it worked. This is how you become a person that can’t be told how to do anything.

Not groundbreaking, not bad. Sounds a lot more like Cheap Trick than anything else. Just substitute the Hanson kid for someone who can’t sing, substitute the rest of the band for people who can’t play, make a low-fi recording, release it as vinyl only, and this song would be instantly legendary, it’s just that easy.

I thought that this movie was absolutely brilliant until the spielbergian parts started creeping in, its actually pretty easy to tell when it ceases to be a Kubrick movie. I don’t think that this movie belongs here.

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